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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The following text is derived from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPMN" target="_blank" class="weblink">Business Process Modeling Notation</a> entry in the online Wikipedia.</span></p>
<p class="p_OMGText" style="margin: 5px 0px 5px 48px;"><span class="f_OMGText">The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a standardized graphical notation for drawing business processes in a workflow. BPMN was developed by Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), and is now being maintained by the Object Management Group since the two organizations merged in 2005.</span></p>
<p class="p_OMGText" style="margin: 5px 0px 5px 48px;"><span class="f_OMGText">The primary goal of BPMN is to provide a standard notation that is readily understandable by all business stakeholders. These business stakeholders include the business analysts who create and refine the processes, the technical developers responsible for implementing the processes, and the business managers who monitor and manage the processes. Consequently BPMN is intended to serve as common language to bridge the communication gap that frequently occurs between business process design and implementation.</span></p>
<p class="p_OMGText" style="margin: 5px 0px 5px 48px;"><span class="f_OMGText">... The adoption of BPMN standard notation will help unify the expression of basic business process concepts (e.g. public and private processes, choreographies) as well as advanced modeling concepts (e.g. exception handling, transaction compensation).</span></p>
<p class="p_OMGText" style="margin: 5px 0px 5px 48px;"><span class="f_OMGText">BPMN ... supports only the concepts of modeling that are applicable to business processes ... other types of modeling done by organizations for non-business purposes [are] out of scope for BPMN. For example, ... modeling ... the following is not a part of BPMN:</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_OMGText">Organizational structures</span></li>
<li><span class="f_OMGText">Functional breakdowns</span></li>
<li><span class="f_OMGText">Data models</span></li>
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<p class="p_OMGText" style="margin: 5px 0px 5px 48px;"><span class="f_OMGText">In addition, while BPMN shows the flow of data (messages) and the association of data artifacts to activities, it is not a data flow diagram.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">For further information on the concepts of BPMN, refer to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPMN" target="_blank" class="weblink">Wikipedia</a> item and its linked sources.</span></p>
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<td width="955" bgcolor="#f7f7ff" style="width:955px; background-color:#f7f7ff;"><p class="p_TiporNoteText"><span class="f_TiporNoteText">The Enterprise Architect installer for release 7.5 provides you with version 1.5 of MDG Technology for BPMN, which supports BPMN version 1.1 and BPEL. This enables you to create and maintain diagrams in the BPMN 1.1 and BPEL formats.</span></p>
<p class="p_TiporNoteText"><span class="f_TiporNoteText">The installer also provides version 1.4.4 of MDG Technology for BPMN, which supports BPMN 1.0. This enables you to maintain existing diagrams created in BPMN 1.0 format, and to create new diagrams in BPMN 1.0 if you want to maintain consistency through your project.</span></p>
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<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">BPMN in Enterprise Architect</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The BPMN notation is specifically targeted at the business modeling community and has a relatively direct mapping to UML through BPMN Profiles integrated with the Enterprise Architect installer. Through use of these profiles, Enterprise Architect enables you to develop BPMN diagrams quickly and simply. The BPMN facilities are provided in the form of:</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">A BPMN diagram type, accessed through the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="newdiagrams.htm">New Diagram</a></span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> dialog</span></li>
<li><span class="f_UIControl">BPMN</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> pages in the Enterprise Architect UML </span><span class="f_UIControl">Toolbox</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">BPMN element and relationship entries in the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField"><a href="umltoolboxshortcutmenu.htm">UML Toolbox Shortcut</a></span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="umltoolboxshortcutmenu.htm"> Menu</a> and </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="quick_links.htm">Quick Linker</a></span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">.</span></li>
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<p class="p_SubHeadingL2"><span class="f_SubHeadingL2">BPMN Toolbox Pages</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">You can access the </span><span class="f_UIControl">BPMN</span><span class="f_BodyText"> pages of the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Toolbox</span><span class="f_BodyText"> through the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">More tools | BPMN 1.0 </span><span class="f_BodyText">and</span><span class="f_MenuKeyField"> BPMN 1.1</span><span class="f_BodyText"> menu options. </span><span class="f_BodyText">These pages provide the graphical (Core) and non-graphical (Types) BPMN elements for use on business process diagrams.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Specifications of these elements and relationships are defined by Tagged Values (for example, to define the </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">Message</span><span class="f_BodyText">, </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">Timer</span><span class="f_BodyText"> and </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">Default Path (/)</span><span class="f_BodyText"> symbols in the diagram below).</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">For further information on BPMN and Tagged Values, see the </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="change_element_appearance.htm">Change BPMN Element Appearance</a></span><span class="f_BodyText"> topic.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="159" bgcolor="#e3e6ed" style="width:159px; background-color:#e3e6ed; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tableheader"><span class="f_Tableheader">Item</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" bgcolor="#e3e6ed" style="width:409px; background-color:#e3e6ed; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tableheader"><span class="f_Tableheader">Use to</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="95" style="width:95px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tableheader"><span class="f_Tableheader">Core</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="159" style="width:159px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Business Process</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Extend a </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;">composite Activity</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> that defines a business process.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="159" style="width:159px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">BPEL Process</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Define the behavior of an executable or abstract business process.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="95" style="width:95px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tableheader"><span class="f_Tableheader">&nbsp;</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="159" style="width:159px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Activity</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Define an activity within a business process</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="159" style="width:159px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Start Event</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Define the initiating event in a process.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="159" style="width:159px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Intermediate Event</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Define an intermediate event in a process.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="159" style="width:159px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">End Event</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Define the terminating event in a process.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="159" style="width:159px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Gateway</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Define a decision point in a business process. I</span><span class="f_Tabletext">f a condition is true, then processing continues one way; if not, then another.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="159" style="width:159px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Pool</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Extend a</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;">Partition</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> element to logically organize an Activity.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="159" style="width:159px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Lane</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Extend a </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;">Partition</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> element to subdivide a Pool.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="159" style="width:159px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Data Object</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Extend an </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;">Artifact</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> element to define a </span><span class="f_Tabletext">physical piece of information used or produced by a system.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Extend a </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;">Boundary</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> element to group other elements.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="159" style="width:159px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Text Annotation</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Create a comment.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="159" style="width:159px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Sequence Flow</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Extend a </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;">Control Flow</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> relationship to define the flow of activity.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="159" style="width:159px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Message Flow</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Extend a </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;">Control Flow</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> relationship to define the flow of communications in the process.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="159" style="width:159px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Association</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Associate information and artifacts with flow objects.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="159" style="width:159px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Message</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Extend a </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;">Class</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> element to define a message.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Extend a </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;">Class</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> element to define a participant in an activity.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Extend a </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;">Class</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> element to define a transaction in an activity.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="409" style="width:409px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Extend a </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;">Class</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> element to define a web service.</span></p>
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